Dione
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 80.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 161 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,373since 1929
Dione over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
| 2019 | — | #8,889 | 8 | |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | — | #10,744 | 6 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | — | |
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #9,115 | 7 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | — | |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #3,842 | 21 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | — | #3,191 | 21 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #3,224 | 19 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,585 | 26 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #3,135 | 29 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #2,440 | 40 | #3,401 | 13 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #1,641 | 70 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #1,704 | 66 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #1,770 | 61 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #1,938 | 50 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #1,538 | 70 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 58 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #1,350 | 79 | #2,288 | 19 |
| 1974 | #1,157 | 99 | #2,129 | 20 |
| 1973 | #1,088 | 105 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #988 | 121 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #909 | 144 | #2,203 | 18 |
| 1970 | #840 | 161 | #1,939 | 21 |
| 1969 | #881 | 142 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | #1,123 | 90 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #1,372 | 64 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #1,385 | 63 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #1,689 | 44 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,543 | 23 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,608 | 22 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,289 | 25 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,033 | 15 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,295 | 22 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,301 | 21 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
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| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,087 | 15 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,581 | 11 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dione! It came in at #4,570, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1940, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Dione
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1969 (#1,123 → #881)
- Biggest drop: 100 spots in 1973 (#988 → #1,088)
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 1970 at #840 (161 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1969–1972
- Highest: 1 in 10,858 girls born in 1970 were named Dione (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,226 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 39.9% of all girls named Dione (948) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,570 (1929) | #4,570 |
| 1930s | 78 | #1,877 (1932) | #2,762 |
| 1940s | 52 | #3,393 (1949) | #4,243 |
| 1950s | 172 | #2,289 (1959) | #2,786 |
| 1960s | 516 | #881 (1969) | #1,989 |
| 1970s | 948 | #840 (1970) | #1,326 |
| 1980s | 381 | #1,641 (1981) | #3,007 |
| 1990s | 99 | #6,073 (1998) | #8,315 |
| 2000s | 63 | #8,196 (2001) | #13,656 |
| 2010s | 38 | #8,776 (2017) | #12,887 |
| 2020s | 21 | #10,383 (2022) | #12,610 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dione in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 14,824 of them was named Dione, which outranked 88.7% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 78,617 of them was named Dione, which outranked 64.5% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,050Waymond21
- #2,050Young21
- #2,050Zach21
- #2,129Dione20
- #2,129Abran20
- #2,129Andrey20
- #2,129Avi20
- #2,199Akim19
- #2,199Alford19
- #2,199Alicia19
Tied with 69 names at #2,129; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.